British Newscaster Caught Swiping on Imaginary iPad

The last few seconds of every broadcast must be agony for newscasters. They've said everything they're going to say, and now they just need to sit there as you wait for the camera pan away or cut to something else. It's why they invented that paper shuffling thing they do. But what do they do if they have no paper to shuffle? Well, they do what BBC Sportsday presenter Chris Mitchell seems to be doing in this clip and pretend to swipe through an imaginary iPad.

Nailed it.

It's unclear what prompted the bizarre display. Some say it might be budget cuts, some think it's a Ron Burgundy-esque muscle memory, and Mitchell himself said there was an iPad there, it was just highly advanced "nano technology." One thing is for sure: this isn't the first time the BBC has forced a presenter to substitute an iPad for something else—see below—so we can only assume it won't be the last.